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Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman, right, is challenging Rep. Eliot Engel, left in New York's 16th congressional district Erin Scott/Reuters, Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

Rep. Eliot Engel of New York's 16th Congressional District is facing the toughest re-election fight of his life in a primary challenge from first-time candidate Jamaal Bowman.
Bowman gained momentum after Engel committed a series of high-profile gaffes and was largely absent from the district during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Because of the major increase in New Yorkers casting ballots by mail and election officials not being allowed to count absentee ballots until days after
the election, the race won't be called until after June 30.
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New York Democratic House Primary 16
Last updated: 6/24/2020, 11:53:42 AM
Candidate Votes Percent
Jamaal Bowman 27,174 61.75%
Eliot Engel * 15,372 34.93%
Christopher Fink 668 1.52%
Sammy Ravelo 491 1.12%
Andom Ghebreghiorgis 300 0.68%
44,005 total votes
| *Incumbent



Because of the substantial increase in New Yorkers voting absentee due to the COVID-19 pandemic and prevailing New York law prohibiting election officials from processing absentee ballots until eight days after election day, the race won't be called
until after June 30.
The stakes:

Rep. Eliot Engel, who has served in Congress since 1989 and chairs the powerful
House Foreign Relations Committee, is fighting for his political life.

The current 16th District that Engel represents includes parts of the Bronx and
Westchester County, including the suburbs of Yonkers, Scarsdale, and New Rochelle.

He's now facing a serious challenge from Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal in the Bronx and first-time political candidate running as a progressive reformer on a platform of increasing investment in education, healthcare, and green energy.

—Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) May 26, 2020



Engel's troubles started mounting this spring after The Atlantic caught him and
his aides contradicting each other about where Engel had been during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While Engel told the outlet he had quarantined "in both places," his spokeswoman told The Atlantic that he had entirely ridden out the pandemic at his residence in Maryland and hadn't set foot in his district — which was one
of the hardest hit by the
pandemic — at all.

Then, at a news conference dedicated to racism and police brutality in the Bronx, Engel pleaded with Bronx borough president Ruben Díaz Jr. to speak when
he hadn't previously been scheduled to do so, and loudly proclaimed into the microphone twice in a
row that he wouldn't care about being there at all if he didn't have a primary challenger.

After Engel's gaffe, Bowman saw his campaign surge and his fortunes rise. He began raking in campaign donations and earned the endorsements of The New York Times editorial board and several high-profile progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and a number of state legislators.

With his reelection in jeopardy, Engel has secured last-minute messages of support and endorsements from powerful New York politicians like Hillary Clinton, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo as his campaign claims their internal
polling shows the congressman up by 8 points.

A poll of the race conducted by Data for Progress conducted June 11-15, however, showed Engel in a precarious position behind by 10 percentage points, with 41% of registered voters indicating they would vote for Bowman, 31% saying
they will vote for
Engel, and 27% undecided.

"This result proves what we've known all along — this district is ready for fundamental change and new leadership," Bowman's campaign manager Luke Hayes said about the poll in a statement.

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